Pang Li^{1, *}, Lifeng Zhu², Brij B. Gupta^{3, 4}, Sunil Kumar Jha⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 2079-2090, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.013696 - 16 September 2020

Abstract In sensor networks, it is a challenge to ensure the security of data exchange between packet switching nodes holding different private keys. In order to solve this problem, the present study proposes a scheme called multi-conditional proxy broadcast reencryption (MC-PBRE). The scheme consists of the following roles: the source node, proxy server, and the target node. If the condition is met, the proxy can convert the encrypted data of the source node into data that the target node can directly decrypt. It allows the proxy server to convert the ciphertext of the source node to More >

Xiangshu Ou¹, Mingfang Jiang^2,*, Shuai Li¹, Yao Bai¹

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.2, No.3, pp. 123-130, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2020.09703 - 14 September 2020

Abstract In smart environments, more and more teaching data sources are uploaded to remote cloud centers which promote the development of the smart campus. The outsourcing of massive teaching data can reduce storage burden and computational cost, but causes some privacy concerns because those teaching data (especially personal image data) may contain personal private information. In this paper, a privacy-preserving image feature extraction algorithm is proposed by using mean value features. Clients use block scrambling and chaotic map to encrypt original images before uploading to the remote servers. Cloud servers can directly extract image mean value More >

Qiuju Ji¹, Peipeng Yu¹, Zhihua Xia^{1, *}

Journal on Big Data, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 33-51, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jbd.2020.01004 - 07 September 2020

Abstract Aprivacy-preserving search model for JPEG images is proposed in paper, which uses the bag-of-encrypted-words based on QDCT (Quaternion Discrete Cosine Transform) encoding. The JPEG image is obtained by a series of steps such as DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) transformation, quantization, entropy coding, etc. In this paper, we firstly transform the images from spatial domain into quaternion domain. By analyzing the algebraic relationship between QDCT and DCT, a QDCT quantization table and QDTC coding for color images are proposed. Then the compressed image data is encrypted after the steps of block permutation, intra-block permutation, single table More >

Zheng Fang^1,∗, Junyun Cai¹, Lifang Tian²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.35, No.4, pp. 299-305, 2020, DOI:10.32604/csse.2020.35.299

Abstract Payment is a necessary thing in people’s daily life, and the development of the Internet makes it possible that people can shop at home. As for chip bank card, it is an important payment method that has been developed in recent years and plays a key role in remote payment. In this study, firstly, the risk features of chip bank cards were analyzed from the general remote payment scheme. Then, based on the security technology theory, a chip bank card remote payment model using elliptic curve hybrid encryption algorithm and identity authentication technology was constructed. More >

Poomagal C T^1,∗, Sathish kumar G A², Deval Mehta³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 51-63, 2020, DOI:10.32604/csse.2020.35.051

Abstract The burgeoning network communications for multiple applications such as commercial, IoT, consumer devices, space, military, and telecommunications are facing many security and privacy challenges. Over the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a focus of study. Security and privacy are the most important problems for IoT applications and are still facing huge difficulties. To promote this high-security IoT domain and prevent security attacks from unauthorized users, keys are frequently exchanged through a public key exchange algorithm. This paper introduces a novel algorithm based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography(ECC) for multi-level Public Key Exchange More >

Xiehua Li^1,*, Fang Li¹, Jie Jiang¹, Xiaoyu Mei²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1707-1721, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011227 - 20 August 2020

Abstract Efficient multi-keyword fuzzy search over encrypted data is a desirable technology for data outsourcing in cloud storage. However, the current searchable encryption solutions still have deficiencies in search efficiency, accuracy and multiple data owner support. In this paper, we propose an encrypted data searching scheme that can support multiple keywords fuzzy search with order preserving (PMS). First, a new spelling correction algorithm-(Possibility-Levenshtein based Spelling Correction) is proposed to correct user input errors, so that fuzzy keywords input can be supported. Second, Paillier encryption is introduced to calculate encrypted relevance score of multiple keywords for order More >

Muqadar Ali, Chungen Xu^*, Abid Hussain

Journal of New Media, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 31-43, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2020.09946 - 14 August 2020

Abstract Attribute-based encryption is cryptographic techniques that provide flexible data access control to encrypted data content in cloud storage. Each trusted authority needs proper management and distribution of secret keys to the user’s to only authorized user’s attributes. However existing schemes cannot be applied multiple authority that supports only a single keywords search compare to multi keywords search high computational burden or inefficient attribute’s revocation. In this paper, a ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) scheme has been proposed which focuses on multi-keyword search and attribute revocation by new policy updating feathers under multiple authorities and central More >

Leqi Jiang^{1, 2}, Zhangjie Fu^{1, 2, *}

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 49-61, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2020.09308

Abstract Genetic Algorithm (GA) has been widely used to solve various optimization problems. As the solving process of GA requires large storage and computing resources, it is well motivated to outsource the solving process of GA to the cloud server. However, the algorithm user would never want his data to be disclosed to cloud server. Thus, it is necessary for the user to encrypt the data before transmitting them to the server. But the user will encounter a new problem. The arithmetic operations we are familiar with cannot work directly in the ciphertext domain. In this More >

Lei Li¹, Chungen Xu^{1, *}, Xiaoling Yu¹, Bennian Dou¹, Cong Zuo²

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 9-23, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2020.06313

Abstract Searchable encryption technology makes it convenient to search encrypted data with keywords for people. A data owner shared his data with other users on the cloud server. For security, it is necessary for him to build a fine-grained and flexible access control mechanism. The main idea of this paper is to let the owner classify his data and then authorizes others according to categories. The cloud server maintains a permission matrix, which will be used to verify whether a trapdoor is valid or not. In this way we can achieve access control and narrow the More >

Yepeng Liu^{1, 2}, Yongjun Ren^{1, 2, *}, Qirun Wang³, Jinyue Xia⁴

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 1-8, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2020.05878

Abstract With the diversification of electronic devices, cloud-based services have become the link between different devices. As a cryptosystem with secure conversion function, proxy re-encryption enables secure sharing of data in a cloud environment. Proxy re-encryption is a public key encryption system with ciphertext security conversion function. A semi-trusted agent plays the role of ciphertext conversion, which can convert the user ciphertext into the same plaintext encrypted by the principal’s public key. Proxy re-encryption has been a hotspot in the field of information security since it was proposed by Blaze et al. [Blaze, Bleumer and Strauss More >